GOING TO COURT

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 145, 23 June 1930, Page 13

GOING TO COURT

INCIDENTS IN WAITING

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LOND.ON, 16th May.

The crowds waiting in the Mall to see tho arrival of the debutantes nowadays find a tremendous lot to interest them, from 6 p.m. onwards. One <>f the first cars to- draw up in the queue for the Palacb last evening was driven by a woman chauffeur. Beside her sat a woman "footman" in neat brown livery. The unusual sight immediately attracted attention, and people surged round tho car seven and eight deep. ._ , ~ Those jnsido the beautiful cars .in^ dulge in a variety of occupations',' Some'; arp. hungry, and make a raid on a supply of sandwiches, some play bridge, some knit, others read, in other cars the accompaniment of a wireless set < or a gramophone varies the monotony; again,- some of the girls find it rather jolly to take snaps of the crowd; others find friends and chat to them. The wait of three hours or more is ■ not very tedious in the bright sunshine of a summer-like day. Although motorcars . have • supplanted the teams of horse-carriages of the Victorian era, there is no lack of life and movement, for the medalled mounted police provide plenty of interest combined with ceremonious dignity. And now that those who are going to tho Palace have become more used to the interest shown by the crowd they do not often resent their close- presence. One unusual incident on the day of the first Court was tho arrival at the Palace of a new British racing car, I carrying Mr. Jack Hayes, Vice-Cham- j berlain of the Royal Household, and Mr. Thomas Henderson, Comptroller of the Royal Household, to the Palace. Miss Paddy Naismith, the driver, j has for some time acted as unofficial i chauffeur to the Socialist Party, and j she drove this particular car in the Women's Motor Trial to Land's Endj to-day. ■ j